Dave Martinez Quotes

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I have been tremendously impacted and influenced by my coaches. It's nice to play for people that are going to support you.

I felt like a coach. I just wanted to do what I could as far as helping guys understand what was going to happen early and get the best feedback I could and be a great teammate.

Virat has helped me with my preparation, mindset, and he has given me a lot of confidence.

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

The best thing you can do as a leader when people are pressed is get the obstacles out of their way.

As a player, I always felt confident that if I was caIm, my teammates knew, 'He's going to do something to help us win.' As a coach, my hands are really tied. I got to believe in my players. If they see I'm calm, they'll believe I trust them, which I do.

Every team needs people who guide you through the difficult moments.

If I can understand them better as a person then I can understand how to make them a better player too.

I've got the best coaches in the world. I've got confidence in them, and they've got confidence in me.

Arsene Wenger gave me the belief to keep working and competing. He was not talking to me every day, 'I believe in you,' but it was every now and again. The right amount.

I get the privilege to play with Mesut every day. He is a world-class player. He gives me advice in a different way. He jokes around but he always tells me I can do more. He also gives me the confidence to express myself.

I thought as a young coach, there were times when my head coach might have prohibited me from moving forward. I always said if I am ever in that position, I'll do anything I can to make our guys move forward.

To have a superstar - he's Allen Iverson - he really took me under his wing and really forced me to shoot the ball and forced me to make plays, and to have him do that for me - and the way he was always in my ear telling me to shoot the ball and supporting me - it's a big deal.

My best games for England were under Eddie Jones. Eddie got the best out of me. He understood that I needed an arm around me, needed my tyres pumped up.

If the play-caller has confidence in you, you can feel it on the headset. You can feel it by the way he's calling plays.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.